Back To Lower Higgins Creek, Birchfield Camp Br., and the Hidden Lake – 2-3-2012
After our last trip to the Lower Higgins Creek area on Jan 24, 2012, it was decided that we would return there on our next adventure not only to show Bol’Dar the new ‘hidden falls‘ but, also because there are other waterfalls well above the Lower Higgins Creek Falls that are located even higher up the mountain beyond the turn off to the Birchfield Camp Branch Falls that we had not documented yet. We also had discussed possibly going to the ‘hidden lake‘ via the Birchfield Camp Branch Valley. Dave and Lou accompanied Bol’Dar and myself on this adventure and since they had already been to the hidden falls, they proceeded to hike up towards the unseen falls while we took the obscured old log road up to the hidden falls, and then climbed around those to the Lower Higgins Creek Falls and afterwards, climbed back up to the road where we would eventually catch up with Dave and Lou at the unseen falls further up the mountain towards Bearwallow Gap. It did not take long to reach the turnoff to the secret old log road where we parted ways temporarily.